Amalek emails: I was on a train the other day and spent an hour chatting up this lovely shiksa in AA whose first question for me (after learning that I lived in Manhattan) was "so let's cut to the chase -- are you rich?"
OK, here's one difference between American women and the Russian strain. American women have asked me "Are you rich" whereas Russian women have blurted out "Why aren't you rich? You seem so smart, and these other men are so stupid, yet they have everything and you have nothing." Almost word for word what some Russian told me about ten minutes after we met some years back.
